cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32606499

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32606497

why is unzipping on android so slow compared to Windows? I’ve tried Supstream, MaterialFile… All took 10+minutes to unizip a zip file that only took 30 seconds to unzip on Windows.

Why is this the case and i s there any way to speed it up?

Thanks a lot

  • aquacat@pawb.social
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    13 days ago

    I am NOT in any way well known in this topic, so take it as source? my ass answer, but if I’d have to guess it would be

    1. Poorer singlethread performance of ARM CPUs
    2. Missing instruction sets
    3. Android algorithms written in Java/Kotlin where as Windows (WinRAR, 7zip) are written in C/C++